Fifth Baptist Church (Richmond)

The Fifth Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Richmond, Virginia, located on 1415 West Cary Street in the Carytown neighborhood of the city. Its congregation was founded in February 1865 by African-American slaves who slipped away from their quarters in late evening to pray at a torn and tattered shed near a trash dump on Navy Hill. In 1872, Warwick Stable was chosen as the new site for the church, and a parcel of land at 1400 West Cary Street was purchased on 27 February 1894. The Sunday School was founded during the 1940s, and the current church building was completed in January 1984.